Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c12.269.4

c12.269.4

Commenting on a passage of Manu Kullūka states that, by eating garlic and other kinds of forbidden roots, the śūdra cannot commit an offence leading to loss of caste.⁷ This would suggest that garlic, onion and various kinds of meat were regarded as the legitimate food of the members of the lower orders.